Battlefield 3 Does Not Skimp On The Face-Punching

Most of this new Battlefield 3 trailer consists of lighting effects and people being shot. What's got me interested is the fisticuffs in the middle.

That looked like some kind of fancy, scripted quick-time-event scenario. In a Battlefield game. Given these trailers are from the game's singleplayer campaign, that shouldn't surprise you, but this being a multiplayer game, it'll be interesting to see how much of that carries over into melee attacks against a human opponent.

I tend to think of Singleplay as an interactive story. Look at Crysis 2 or Assassins Creed and even Mass Effect, great stories. As for the Multi I really miss the old BF days with Bots in Desert Combat where my mates and I can do stupid shite... Think Multi is just getting too serious these days.
MW2 Spec Ops and Black Ops training mode was a good idea, like to see that expanded.

I only took two things from this trailer:
1. How did he go from crawling on his belly in the extremely tight air vents, to going down the hole feet first?
2. How long until we get a game where looking down a scope doesn't also zoom in everything else AROUND the scope (your peripheral vision)?

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.